AI Engineer: Production ML & MLOps

Metsä Board Sverige Ab; Espoo; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Metsä Group in Espoo seeks an AI Developer to advance AI/ML adoption across the group. You will design, deploy, and maintain production-grade AI capabilities, transforming business needs into scalable, secure solutions.

You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers and business stakeholders, implement MLOps, and ensure production deployments meet cost and security standards. Passion for practical AI is essential.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD degree in Applied Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or another similar discipline.
• Strong expertise in AI application development, machine learning deployment and MLOps practices.
• Strong software engineering and programming skills in Python, together with experience using modern AI and machine learning frameworks.
• Experience with version control systems, such as Azure DevOps Repos, and building CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience in AI solution development with Azure Databricks, Azure AI Foundry capabilities and Microsoft Azure cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, Terraform or similar deployment tools and methodologies.
• A good understanding of scalable, secure and production-grade AI solution architectures and solution costs factors and FinOps.
• The ability to integrate AI capabilities into business processes, applications, APIs, digital services and data platforms.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for working with both technical experts and business stakeholders.
• In addition, you understand the importance of responsible AI, governance and information security. You can balance technical quality with business value, scalability, maintainability and cost efficiency while ensuring that solutions comply with Metsä Group's architecture principles and development standards. Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio is seen as an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy and maintain production-grade AI capabilities.
• Transform business requirements into scalable, secure AI solutions.
• Develop AI applications, services and integrations using machine learning and generative AI.
• Deploy and monitor models in production environments and integrate AI capabilities into business processes and data platforms.
• Industrialize AI and machine learning solutions, implement MLOps and cost-efficient deployment processes.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Software Developers, Architects and stakeholders to ensure successful AI implementations.
• Provide guidance on AI application development, MLOps, deployment architectures and integration strategies.
• Maintain development best practices in developers handbooks.

Skills

Python

ML & AI deployment

MLOps

Cloud architectures

CI/CD pipelines

Azure cloud

Education

Master's/PhD in Applied Mathematics, Economics, Data Science, CS, or Software Engineering

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft Azure

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Job description

Metsä Group in Espoo seeks an AI Developer to advance AI/ML adoption across the group. You will design, deploy, and maintain production-grade AI capabilities, transforming business needs into scalable, secure solutions.

You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers and business stakeholders, implement MLOps, and ensure production deployments meet cost and security standards. Passion for practical AI is essential.